Casgliadau Arlein

Cup, earthenware, standing on a spreading rounded waisted foot-rim, bowl-shaped body with curving sides, plain loop handle; transfer-printed in green with to the exterior sides of the bowl the 'Amoy' pattern, a small chinoiserie-style landscape with figures taking tea in the foreground, behind them are trees and a pagoda-like building, to one side of the scene across an expanse of water are buildings on islands, a scaled down version of the same scene to the interior bottom of the bowl, border to the interior sides of the bowl of garlands of foliage interspersed with flower heads, a running border of feathery foliage to the handle.